23rd February 2012
I create performative works that inhabit a particular moment of action and reaction and which aim to challenge and unsettle. The works are reactive, not in the usual push this, pull that sense, rather their physical activity instigates a more intense and visceral relationship with the viewer, the space and the exhibiting institution. The pieces are unaware of their surroundings, they don’t care if anyone is there or not, their control systems are automatic and random.
Since the start of 2009 I have been making and exhibiting the Health & Safety Violation Series of deliberately dangerous sculptures; to date these have used steel balls on the floor, automatic trip wires, suffocation devices, electric fences, twisting ropes, garrotting cables, spinning weights, flying paint and balanced (falling) glass.
Trained at Glasgow School of Art, I now live in Hackney, East London and teach at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design.